#cbs building

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Windows in the #CBS_Building, #Manhattan.

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Night view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and Avenue of the Americas skyscraper cluster from West New York, New Jersey, spring, 1965.

Buildings are, at left the Mutual of New York (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1950) and Seagram (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and the ABC Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1965) under construction. At the center are the New York Hilton Hotel (William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963), the new CBS Building (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965), the J.C. Penney Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965), Americana Hotel (Morris Lapidus & Associates Kornblath, Harle & Liebman, 1962), and the Equitable Life Assurance Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961). At right are the Rockefeller Center’s Time & Life (Harrison & abramovits, 1959) and the R.C.A. (Associated Architects, 1933). Behind them can be seen the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021).

Photo: Acacia Card Company, New York, N.Y.

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The 45-story Rockefeller Center’s Sperry Rand Building. 1290 Avenue of the Americas between east 51st to 52th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, architects. Harrison & Abramovitz, consultant architects, 1961-1963.

View looking southeast of the Sperry Rand Building, in late Summer, 1963. In foreground, the precast concrete structure for the CBS Building (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965), under construction, began to riese up. 

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

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Modern skyscrapers along Avenue of the Americas. View looking northeast from new Exxon Building’s plaza at Rockefeller Center. Summer, 1972.

The 32-story Rockefeller Center’s American Metal Climax Building (Associated Architects, 1932), are at right, foreground. The 45-story Rockefeller Center’s Sperry Rand Building (Emery Roth & Sons-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963) are at center. Buildings at left, background, are the M.G.M. (Emery Roth & Sons, 1966), ABC-TV (Emery Roth & Sons, 1965) and CBS (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965). Below them, at foreground, is th Time & Life Building’s (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959) north wing.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: “New York City, International Edition”. New York, Manhattan Post Card, Inc.-Dexter Press, 1976.

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ROCKEFELLER CENTER EVOLUTION

Aerial view looking southwest of Rockefeller Center and its neighborhood. Autumn, 1965. 

The orignal Rockefeller Center’s (Associated Architects, 1931-1940) buildings dominated with the 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) at center. Just at right are the modern Time & Life (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959) and Sperry Rand (Emery Roth & Sons-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963), the 1960s addition to tje center that building over both sides of Avenue of the Americas.

Other skyscrapers that appears on this picture are the Thisman Building (Carson & Lundin, 1957) are visible at right, and above it are the, Equitable Life (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961), CBS (Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1965), J.C. Penney (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) and the recently completed ABC-TV (Emery Roth & Sons, 1965) buildings.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: “Libro 1966 Personal”. Barcelona, Difusora Internacional. 4a. Edición, 1971.

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The 38-story CBS Building. 51 West 52nd Street, in the west side of Avenue of the Americas between 52nd and 53rd Street. Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1962-1965.

View looking northeast of the CBS Building during its construction, in Spring, 1964. Buildings on foreground are the J.C. Penney (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) at left, and Equitable Life Assurance (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961).

Photo: Emil Romano.

Source: Architectural Forum, August-September, 1964.

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Avenue of the Americas and north of Times Square’s new skyscrapers in this afternoon view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan from Weehawken, New Jersey. Summer 1970.

Buildings at left: Mutual of New York (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1950), Fuller (Walker & Gillette, 1929. At background) and EMI-Capitol (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971, under construction). 

At center: Burlington House (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969), 1700 Broadway (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969), New York Hilton hotel (William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963), 810 Avenue of the Americas (Kahn & Jacobs, 1970), Americana Hotel (Morris Lapidus & Associates-Kornblath, Harle & Liebman, 1962) and J.C. Penney (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) with CBS (Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1965) and Tishman (Carson & Lundin, 1957) buildings behind it. 

At right: Equitable Life Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961) and the steel skeleton under construction of Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) tower rises up.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Ramón Nieto, and others. "El Puerto". Madrid, Ediciones Altea, 1975.